The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-01-27


with shudder, declared she had never
seen 1t in Elen's possession, and the serv-
ants said the same; so it was evident that
the melancholy relic afforded no clew to
the girls. fate.-London Truth.
AN ATHLETES CHAT.
HE DOES NOT BELlEvE IN ExERTloN
THAT TAXES THE STRENGTH.
Good Physical Development Should be
tho Rule Rather Than the Exception.
The Usual Gymnasium Apparatus Fit
Only for Kindling Wood.
John NJ. Latin, the 'smodel man" OF
the Vienna exposition, is an accomplished
athlete and champion in several lines.
For several years he stood in the Paris
Life school for Gerome and many other
famous painters of the human figure, and
he has drawings of his form made by
them, which show him to be one of the
few perfectly formed men. In response
to the interviewer's request for Q talk on
the subject of exercising for health rather
than for special development Mr.. Latin
said:
cone need not train like m athlete, and
O man does not require physique like
mine to bo perfectly healthy, but if men
and women could be kept healthy for a
few generations physical development like
mine would be the rule, not the excep-
tion. Nine tenths Of tho diseases that
now keep the doctors busy would be OBJ
solutely unknown. No healthy man ever
got pneumonia, no matter what the ex-
posure. There Is no case on record Of @
sailor having pneumonia This Is be-
cause sailors lungs are kept in good
order by pure air, and he gets plenty of
exercise: The amount of exercise ncces-
sary to keep the body in good condition
is less than you might suppose. Fifteen
minutes o day rightly employed will do
wonders. A person ought to exercise a
few minutes in the morning, and. then
take sponge bath in salted water, fol-
lowed by vigorous rubbing with hair
gloves or q coarse towel. The movements
of the muscles start the impurities to the
surface and the bath cleans the pores.
The exercise ought to be light.
ssI don't believe in eXertion that taxes
the muscular strength. Heenan and all
those old time athletes thought they must
use hundred pound dumb bells and trot
around with great lead soles on their
shoes. That made them heavy and slow,
and exhausted their strength needlessly.
One pound dumb bells are heavy enough
for anybody, and Indian clubs should not
weigh more than four or five pounds ut
the outside. Gymnasts should not use
heavy weights at all. What is needed to
develop muscle is movement, action-not
strain. You don't train trotter by hitch
ing him to loaded coal cart and making
him drag that around the track. Hanlan
doesn't get into whale boat for scul
race. The lifting of heavy weights is bad
selves to lift q ton killed themselves
Overtraining and .overexercising of any
kind is injurious, and that is why college
boat racing is not always good thing"
"What do you think OF the usual gym
nasium apparatus'"
ssWell, think 1t ought to be split up
into kndling wood. Young fellows get
into gymnasium and see an athlete on
the bars. They try to do what he does,
and the chances are they fall and break
bones or strain beyond repair some cord
or muscle which they have not been ac-
customed to use. All exercises that bring
the weight Of tho body on the arms
stretched above the head arc bad. The
position Is unnatural and strains the cords
of the breasts. Horizontal bars and rings
are not health giving devices. A man
wasn't made to hang head downward.
He can get all the exercise he needs with
his head higher than his feet and his blood
flowing in its natural course. Idon'tap-
prove of foot racing either, because it
puts too much strain upon the heart and
the blood vessels. Moderate running,
however, is all well enough when one Is
accustomed to it. Some people think
walking affords ell the exercise one needs,
but that Is not so. It exercises only the
legs at the expense Of the body. 1t is
good, but it is not enough. Carried to
m extreme it Is positively bad. II you
overdevelop one set Of muscles and neg
lect tho rest the neglected muscles and
organs detcriorate es fast rs tho others
develop. Take ballet dancers, for ex-
ample. They get their legs in prime con-
dition, and can perform wonders in the
way Of jumping and kicking, but they
grow narrow chested and thin necked,
their stomachs get disordered, and nearly
oil Of them-die OF consumption.
In summer people are moro healthy
because they cannot help It, They per-
spire and wear clothing that Is not air
tight. In winter they pile on the clothes
and suffocate themselves. The skin grows
torpid, and dead scarf skin forms, locking
up the pores just as the ice looks up o
river. And then they attribute conges-
tions, torpid liver and blood, colds and
chills to the weather. What they need is
exercise to open the pores, rough rubbing
to cut away the dead skin and salt sponge
baths to clean and harden the cuticle.
Follow that system daily and you will
find yourself less and less sensitive to
cold.
s'For women nothing is so beneficial as
rowing. Most of them foolishly put the
abdominal muscles out of commission by
wearing corsets and tight clothes, and all
kinds Of diseases ere the result. Only
civilized women have these troubles. The
Indian mother walks about freely with
day old child in her arms. The white
lady says that is vulgar and like tho ami
mails, well, q white lady is IN animal
and usually. o very unnatural and
poor specimen Of an animal at that 1t
is the animal in US that keeps Us alive,
and If we neglect it we pay the penalty in
disease, suffering and premature death.
Women who are weak, suffering, and un-
ablo to get any comfort in life could cure
themselves by rowing. Small dumb bells
are good also. One Gun exercise great
many muscles with them, and by using
one pound dumb bells the danger of in
jury that formerly accompanied this style
of exercise Is avoided.
"Using heavy bells is worse chan use
less. You can get up all the perspiration
you want by swinging pound Of iron in
each hand in lively fashion for minute
or two. If you do not perspire freely or
are subject to pains in the joints or mus
cles, or your circulation is sluggish, you
can attach a battery to the bells. That
is new idea and very good one. New
York Sun.
Dangers Of Sudden Change.
A writer recently called attention to the
great danger to the health of the human
organism by drop Of 50 to rs degrees in
the temperature occurring in an hour or
two, and then charges that we daily pro-
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